Sex, Lies and Offshore Vehicles: How Russia Became the Country It Is Today
(World News Russia)

`Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World` (Profile Books) is investigative journalist Oliver Bullough`s 2018 book about the corrupt world leaders who prosper at the expense of their people. `Moneyland` is a concept of Bullough`s creation, a `country` made up of the services and laws of nations around the world that allow this class of super-rich to hide their ill-gotten gains. Below is an extract from the book, the chapter `Sex, Lies and Offshore Vehicles`, about the beginnings of Russia`s oligarchy. The 1990s in Russia were disastrous. The army lost a war against Chechnya, a region with fewer people than Russia had soldiers. The economy collapsed. The...